Unknown ratings are assumed to be 150 regardless of the coach's other teams. Divide by 6 if you want to know your average

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Post subject: Re: Lucca World Cup Round 1 Preview

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2015 1:54 pm

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Woo! Team Exiles,942.09, average 157.015!

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Interesting stuff, the list does correspond pretty well with my very vague gut feel on who we will see competing at the top. Obviously the random nature of Blood Bowl means that anything can happen. But good to see that the NAF rankings can produce this kind of result (when the individual rankings sometimes seem to contain a few outliers).

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Are we betting on this? If so I'll stick a cheeky punt on Team Wombat (Aus) if they can stay [relatively] hangover free...

You're kidding, right?

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Post subject: Re: Re:

Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 11:43 am

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We should totally be able to place side bets in a venerable Blood Bowl tradition!

No bets, but here are some predictions:

I see a few categories of teams:

Favorites:Although Waterbowl have to be the overall favorites (or, being brits, "favourites"?), and Masters of Tilea way up there too (especially if Home Field is an advantage in Blood Bowl), any of these teams could take the trophy on a good day, and Table 1 will probably be matchups from this group throughout the tournament. Nobody will be shocked if one of these teams wins it all.

The Middle:Just because of how the Swiss System works, there's going to be a lot of volatility in where these teams finish. We all know that Blood Bowl is a cruel game, and in such a large field, something as small as one touchdown or casualty more or less, or a tie instead of a win, or something like that, could probably mean ten or twenty places higher or lower in the ranking. And who knows? Someone from this group could come out of nowhere and shock the Blood Bowl world!!

Who Knows?There are four teams who are at exactly 900 points (every coach is playing a team for which they are unranked in the NAF standings). Who knows where they'll end up? Keep an eye out for "Old Mumblers Company", "Mediolanum Warlords", "Jackals Blood Bowl Team", and "I Cavalieri dell'Altoforno"

SpoilersThese are the teams who are just there to have fun and cause chaos. For whatever reason, they feature coaches with low NAF rankings in those particular teams ... these are your stunties, your all-piling-on Ogres, and so on. They'll probably spend much of the World Cup playing against each other, BUT that doesn't mean that they're going to be pushovers! Like I pointed out before, the middle part of the standings is going to be pretty close ... which means some team will lose out on a top-100 finish because Halflings or Goblins scratched out a win against them. And don't expect much sympathy from anyone if your tournament gets ruined by Ogres. This is Blood Bowl, and this is the World Cup!!

See you guys in Lucca in a couple days!!

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Who Knows?There are four teams who are at exactly 900 points (every coach is playing a team for which they are unranked in the NAF standings). Who knows where they'll end up? Keep an eye out for "Old Mumblers Company", "Mediolanum Warlords", "Jackals Blood Bowl Team", and "I Cavalieri dell'Altoforno"

Good spot!

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